How do you make the attached example work (see comments at the beginning of
the file) ?

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<to be read again>
                   \par
l.22

?

Alan

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Otared Kavian <otared@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 22 janv. 09, at 15:39, Alan Stone wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Wolfgang Schuster <
> schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Alan Stone
>> <software.list.1es9s@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Is there a command which returns the number of lines for a given portion
>> of
>> > text ?
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> \setbox\scratchbox\vbox{\input knuth\par}
>>
>> \getnoflines\htdp\scratchbox
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>
> \getnoflines{\htdp\scratchbox}  % this works
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>
>
>
>> Your text has \noflines\ lines.
>
>
> or: Your text has \noflines lines.
>
>
> Try: Your text has {\the\noflines} lines.
>
>
> Best regards: OK
>